Premiere: Vanity Project – File Management Blues

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Downtempo dub chuggers, acid, proto house and balearic as Vanity Project returns to Claptrap

There was an Old Drive in a Case,
Who held ten long years in its space;
It went blink with a hum,
And said, “Now I’m numb!”
Then the Screen wrote “Not Found” on its face.

A Man at the Claptrap HQ
Said, “I know what a Man ought to do:
Make some Acid that bites,
Proto House for the nights,
And a Sad String to see it all through.”

Said a Mancunian chap, Ruf Dug,
“I shall give the A1 a good tug!”
It came back, so they say,
As a killer that day,
Very tasty, and snug as a bug.

So, children, whatever you do,
Keep a second and third copy too;
Back it up! Back it twice!
(It is cheap, it is nice)
Or you’ll sing the File Management Blues.

Nearly six years after his last full EP on Claptrap, Vanity Project returns with ‘File Management Blues’, made after a backup drive meltdown wiped over ten years of studio files from Claptrap HQ.

The EP has four original versions on a theme, plus a rework of the lead track from Manchester’s Ruf Dug. It runs from uptempo, club rollers with swirling pads and biting acid lines to downtempo dub chuggers, spanning acid, proto house, and balearic, with a melancholic digital string melody running through it all. The release notes sign off with a reminder: always back it up, kids.

‘File Management Blues (w/ Ruf Dug Remix)’ is out 6 November on Claptrap (CLPTRP008), on 12″ vinyl.

A1. ‘File Management Blues’
A2. ‘File Management Blues pt.2’
B1. ‘File Management Blues (Ruf Dug Remix)’
B2. ‘Everybody Talkin’ ‘Bout (File Management)’
B3. ‘File Management Dub’

Produced and written by Vanity Project. Remix produced by Ruf Dug. Design by Lorenz Klingebiel.

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